Word: trenchant
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...competition proved that the capable artist, working in the heat of firsthand observation, could turn out wartime pictures that were trenchant records of life behind the guns. As one officer said: "In this war, for the first time, army and public emotions are at the same level. The army artists are putting the emotions on canvases that are good and understandable...
Like the Stamp Tax? This means, declared Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone in a trenchant minority opinion, that "a way has been found for the effective suppression of speech and press and religion despite constitutional guarantees. The very taxes now before us are better adapted to that end than were the stamp taxes which so successfully curtailed the dissemination of ideas by 18th-Century newspapers and pamphleteers, and which were a moving cause of the American Revolution...
...Artist Marcel Duchamp (famed for his Nude ,Descending the Staircase), John Sloan climbed to the top of Washington Square's Arch, there built a bonfire and read a solemn declaration proclaiming Greenwich Village an independent republic. Less violent than his speeches and ideas were John Sloan's trenchant, Daumier-like paintings and etchings of Manhattan street and rooftop scenes which got him a name as one of the best U.S. realists...
Newshawks (whom he hated) and col leagues last week recalled some episodes of Sir Frederick's turbulent career. He was a stubborn man of strong feelings, sudden temper, trenchant speech. After insulin was discovered in 1921, Biochemist James Bertram Collip was called in to polish up the glandular extraction technique. The stuff began to be called "Collip's extract." Banting leaped on Collip in the university halls, threw him down, banged his head on the floor, bellowed: "So, you will call this 'Collip's extract,' will...
...editorial from Catholic Spain-which Pius XII is presumably as anxious as U. S. and British Catholics to keep out of the arms of the Axis. The Madrid Alcázar had written: "National Socialism is primarily a religious movement based on Christian principle." Said the Vatican radio in trenchant rebuttal...